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This is the fascinating story of Stephen Glass (hayden Christianson), a young hot shot journalist for the hallowed "The New Republic" magazine. After a series of lead articles that further enhances the magazine's reputaion, the editor of the online version of Forbes mahazine calls Glass' editor Chuck Lane (Peter Sarsgaard) and questions certain facts in the latest piece. Glass vociferously defends his facts and notes, but over time as Forbes relentlessly looks into the background of the piece it becomes apparent that it was fabricated, at first only parts of it but then the entire article.
Lane wishaving a tough time because he had been cosen to replace the legendary Michael kelly and the staff supports Glass and dislikes Lane. The entire film is absorbing, but the last third, where Glass' career is collapsing around him and he STILL refuses to admit any wrongdoing, is spellbinding. At times you want to shout out at him onscreen to just ADMIT IT. The film is deadicated to the late Kelly. Highly recommended.
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rico,I'm a big fan of "Shattered Glass" as the characters alm,os all seemed three-dimensional- no one was perfect or entirely a villian.
This movie remids me of one with a similar -and true- theme, "Rogue Trader" (1999) in which Ewan MacGregor plays a English commodities trader in Asia that famously brought down one of the oldest banks in the UK by hiding losses. Just as in "Shattered" the scheme starts innocently and then escalates out of control. And while he's losing $100s of Millions, he's prized as an ascending star!
Yes, by all means see "Shattered Glass", but then follow it with "Rogue Trader" for further scenes of well-written, well-acted career implosion!
Cheers,
Bambi B
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I really enjoyed this film as well. Worth noting is Rosario Dawson's performance, very nicely understated. One of those stories that shows us a world we do not ordinarily see.
Ebert compared it to "All the President's Men" in importance. I certainly agree with you about Dawson.
...Peter Saarsgard's beleaguered editor. Wonderful performance.Everyone was good in this - Dawson, Sevigny, Christianson. Poor lad, he gets accused of no acting chops on account of SWs, but this film proved otherwise. Gotta consider the material.
Grins
was Shattered Glass (?)Grins
That's why it's so good.Glass wrote a novel and has now disappeared from the limelight.
Alas, I believe the editor played by Peter Saarsgard was killed in Iraq.
Shattered Glass is one of the best movies about journalism and journalistic integrity I've ever seen.
It was Michael Kelly, played here by Hank Azaria, who was killed in Iraq. By that time, kelly was working for "The AtlantIc Monthly". Sarsgaard played Chuck Lane, the editor who replaced Kelly. A major plot point (and true) is that the staff LOVED Kelly and disliked Lane, particularly when he started investigating Glass' shenanigans.
Grins
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